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When I was a young boy, mama she said to me,
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"There's only one girl in the world for you,
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And she probably lives in Tahiti."
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Or maybe she's in the Bahamas, where the Caribbean Sea is blue,
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Weeping away in the tropical night, because nobody's told about you.

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I'd go the whole wide world, 
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I'd go the whole wide world just to find her.
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I'd go the whole wide world,
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I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her. 

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Why I’m hanging around in the rain out here, trying to think of a girl
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Why are my eye’s filling up with these lonely tears, when this 
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girl’s all over this world.
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Or is she lying on a tropical beach somewhere, underneath the tropical 
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sun? Hiding away in the heat wave there, hoping that I won’t be long?

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I'd go the whole wide world, 
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I'd go the whole wide world just to find her.
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I'd go the whole wide world, 
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I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her.
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I'd go the whole wide world, 
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I'd go the whole wide world just to find her.
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I'd go the whole wide world, 
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I'd go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her.

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I'd go the whole wide world (Repeated to fade)